HOAM Sketches

These are sketches and ideas for a HOAM, a Habitat where Open Awareness
is Manifest.

1. Ubiquitous recording, naked living

The couple knows that someone like the man on the left can have full
awareness of their activity. But it would be difficult for the man to
misuse this ability since he knows the woman on the right can have full
awareness of how he uses that ability.

2. The place has no hooks for blocking awareness

Organized around open awareness, as opposed to cultural practices for
enforcing not-knowing, a mind is consistent with being aware of
childhood traumas, the presence of death, etc. The man on the right
flees because his mind is incompatible with knowing even simple
information such as the sensualities of his naked body.

3. Life is organized around expecting all things available

Dealing with something like a car accident is organized differently
since it was recorded from many angles and all people have access to
the recording. An approaching person knows that someone can access
images and information from his whole life up to that moment. There is
an easy "href" reference to all knowledge, and all transactions expect
this.

4. That which happens when there is no distance

When information and production is fully efficient, you don't spend any
time on "to do" tasks. You are thrust immediately into the most
fundamental questions (represented by the infinity sign) of what
matters, not how to get there. Below, a man thinks he has created a new
work of art, but the woman browsing the vast information store quickly
finds where it has already been done. Thus one of the fundamental
questions is how not to rely on illusions of "my unique individual
creativity".

5. The conviction that openness is useless is something
asserted on top of openness

A person may claim "What good is complete open awareness? There would
be nothing left to do!" This person returns to a life based on blocking
out various awarenesses in order to maintain the appearance of mastery
over existence, all the while relying on the benefits of many stages of
opening awareness. If "X" is the benefits of open awareness, the person
stands on X and uses X to claim that there is no X.

6. It's easy to see when behavior is based on blocking
awareness

In order to experience the wedding ceremony in the way that he wants
to, the man must block out awareness that he made the same promises to
a different woman a few years ago, and the woman must block out
awareness that soon the man will realize that she is not the only woman
in the world. On the right, in order to experience the delicious bacon,
the person
must block simple awareness of the violence
which brought it to the table. This is shown in the diagram: For the
man to pursue the object of his desire, he must be unaware of the pile
of objects in the past which he desired with equal intensity to no
satisfaction, and of the cravings waiting in the future. This blocking
of awareness creates a comfortable bubble where he is master of the
world filled
with the object of desire. But his
need to block awareness prevents him from asking "why" recursively
enough to get to the first of things.

7. Where the work to make the source of all things open has
already been done long ago

A woman has complete access to whatever she she needs to know to deal
with a broken device. The conclusion of this opening process may be
where knowledge of mind, logic and physics is directly related to the
first of things.

8. Go to a place which is not built for confused minds and
you won't find confused minds

Don't ask "Why are there confused minds here?" Ask, "How is this place
organized around having a confused mind?" If a place is instead
organized around expecting minds to embrace open awareness, minds that
need to block awareness will move to environments which are organized
for that. It would be good if both types of environment exist so that
minds can find their comfort zones. But in a world of accelerating
information technology, how stable are environments built around
needing to prevent information? People may need more and more powerful
technology to prevent their awareness from functioning.

9. Glass house, no doors, water park

Only a practical door to keep out the cold.

10. How can a mind intuit that true freedom is valuable
without knowing its value is in that it can't be lost?

Freedom is the exercise of something possibile which was always there.
But if
in glimpsing the value of freedom, someone plays mind tricks (made
possible behind the scenes by that very same freedom) to try to grab
freedom with a chain and impose on it the characteristics they want it
to have, then they lose sight of where its value comes from.

11. Due to the unconditional openness, it's not a place of
healing since people in need of healing won't be comfortable

There are many places organized where people help each other avoid
awareness of what they are not ready to face. Hopefully these
environments will always be available for therapeutic reasons. But
these cultural mechanisms for making the blocking of awareness routine
are
not found in a habitat where open awareness is manifest in how life is
organized.

12. There is the
dynamic of the actual mind to be openly aware of

Even looking at a tree uses an amazing constellation of mind processes.
(How can someone ever, ever be "bored"?)

13. Awakening deepens through re-engineering life around
explicit economic dependency

Open awareness includes awareness of dependency on the wider economic
system and the workers who function in it. But as production becomes
super efficient (like a desktop box that makes an apple) workers are
out of a job. Will that efficiency give the workers the same
easy access? Even if their material needs are met, will most people
need "entertainment technology" to escape from a world of open
awareness?

14. Life is organized as if openly encountered by a stranger

Making knowledge open in the common domain so that your future self
will have access to it much later also means others have access too.